Distracted from what I was doing, I stumbled upon this excellent and inspiring clip. Truly one clip we should all watch every single day, first thing in the morning... I mean that. We go about our daily lives not realizing how we are wasting our youth; that precious substance of which we have less of, every day that goes by.... that and other magnificent advice.

From the Wikipedia article: "Wear Sunscreen or Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay actually called "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.

The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single released in 1999, credited to Baz Luhrmann." This version with subititles in Spanish.

Listen carefully and enjoy!

You just have to wonder that with today's technology and vast knowledge that we'd have robots in place everywhere, exactly as we were promised 30 years ago. Most attempts at designing and developing robots that emulate human or animal like movements have been, well, let's say, not so human or animal like...

Until I saw BigDog: incredibly beautiful and creepy at the same time. The project is funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), you know the same folks that brought you the Internet... 

Make sure to check out 0:37...the immediate response is simply incredible and behaves so realisticly that I think I even felt a bit sorry for the steel beast.  

Their website is not much to look at and painfully slow, but check out their other robots...

Finally Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 has been released. This is a big release with lots of new features, as Scott Guthrie mentions: "Silverlight 2 includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework, and enables a rich .NET development platform that runs in the browser. 

Developers can write Silverlight applications using any .NET language (including VB, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby)."

Of course I w illbe posting some new experiments very soon.

Get the download, documentation, SDK and tools via silverlightexamples.net